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THE RED OR MEADOW VOLE. 



Arvicola pratensis. BAILLOX. 

 PLATE XXIX. 



Tail half as long as the head and body ; upper parts bright 

 chestnut-red, tJie sides reddish-grey ; lower parts yellowish- 

 white. 



Arvicola riparia. Yarrell, Loud. Magaz. Nat. Hist. V. 599 ; Jen- 

 yns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 34 ; Arvicola pratensis, Baillon in Fr. 

 Cuv. Mamra. ; Bell, Brit. Quadr. 330. 



THIS species, which is very closely allied to the 

 last, was first discovered in England by Mr Yarrell, 

 whose contributions to zoological science are so 

 numerous and valuable, and described by him in 

 the fifth volume of the Magazine of Natural History, 

 under the name of " Bank Campagnol, Arvicola 

 riparia" Mr Bell, however, is of opinion that it 

 is the "A. pratensis of M. Baillon, figured in the 

 fourth volume of M. F. Cuvier's great work on the 



